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American baritone Jarrett Ott, whom Opera News names one of its twenty-five “Rising Stars” and called “a man who is seemingly incapable of an unmusical phrase,” is enjoying an international career at the age of 34. In the 2021-2022 season, Mr. Ott will make house debuts with Bayerische Staatsoper as Dandini in La Cenerentola, and with both Opéra de Lille and the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg as Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, the latter conducted by Emmauelle Haïm.

He will also return to the Staatstheater Stuttgart as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Faust in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, and to North Carolina Opera as Marcello in La bohème. Finally, he will be a featured soloist alongside Emmauelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée for a gala event at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and the Staatstheater Unter Den Linden in Berlin.

American baritone Jarrett Ott, whom Opera News names one of its twenty-five “Rising Stars” and called “a man who is seemingly incapable of an unmusical phrase,” is enjoying an international career at the age of 34. In the 2021-2022 season, Mr. Ott will make house debuts with Bayerische Staatsoper as Dandini in La Cenerentola, and with the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg as Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, the latter conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. He will also return to the Staatstheater Stuttgart as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Faust in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust. Finally, he will be a featured soloist alongside Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée for a gala event at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and at the Staatsoper Berlin.

Cancelations due to the Covid-19 pandemic included Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with the Komische Oper Berlin on tour in Chile, Valentin in Faust with the Staatstheater Stuttgart, and the title role in David Lang’s prisoner of the state with Operadagen Rotterdam. In the 2020-2021 season, Mr. Ott performed Aeneas with the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and created the role of John Seward in John Corigliano and Mark Adamo’s The Lord of Cries with Santa Fe Opera. Finally, he performed a virtual presentation Jake Heggie’s one-act opera For a Look or a Touch in Seattle with Music of Remembrance.

In the 2019-2020 season, Mr. Ott returned for his second season in the Ensemble of the Staatstheater Stuttgart, debuting the role of Conte Almaviva in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro. He also reprised the roles of Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Marcello in La bohème, and Dandini in La Cenerentola. In concert, he joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Weill’s Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

In the 2018-2019 season, Mr. Ott made many important European role debuts as he embarked on his first season with the Staatstheater Stuttgart. New production debuts included Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride and Chou En-lai in Nixon in China. Other European role debuts in Stuttgart included Figaro, Marcello, and Dandini. In North America, he returned to Santa Fe Opera as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. He also made two concert debuts, performing the title role in the world premiere of prisoner of the state with Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic, and singing Stephano in Sibelius’ The Tempest with Susanna Mälkki and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

On the operatic stage, recent work has included W.P. Inman in the East Coast premiere of Cold Mountain as well as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Philadelphia, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Maximilian in Candide, and Masetto in Don Giovanni with Santa Fe Opera, Figaro with both Lyric Opera Kansas City and Dayton Opera, Jupiter in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld with New Orleans Opera, Curly in Oklahoma! with Glimmerglass Festival, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers with North Carolina Opera, and Charlie in Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers with Opera Memphis. He made his European operatic debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin singing the role of the Angel in Andrea Scartazzini’s world premiere work Edward II, directed by Christof Loy. Other role debuts included The Count in Strauss’ Capriccio, a co-production with Opera Philadelphia and Curtis Opera Theatre, as well as Kenneth Fuchs’ Falling Man at Symphony Space and the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City.

On the concert stage, Mr. Ott has performed Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Seattle Symphony and Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Columbus Symphony, and a holiday concert with the Lexington Philharmonic. He has also presented several recitals in North America under the auspices of The Brooklyn Art Song Society. A favorite of the New York Choral Society, he has appeared there as soloist in Stanford’s Songs of the Fleet and Handel’s Israel in Egypt, both at Carnegie Hall, as well as in the world premiere of Joseph Vella’s The Hyland Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He made his European concert debut with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, performing pieces by Vito Zuraj and Bach in a performance conducted by Matthias Pintscher, and also embarked on a European tour with Perm Opera and MusicAeterna as Don Pedro de Alvorado in concerts of Purcell’s Indian Queen, with stops in Geneva, Köln, Bremen, and Dortmund.

Jarrett Ott is based in Stuttgart, Germany and New York City, and received his master’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music.